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Blaze of Light & Colour Welcome New Year at Confucius Temple

Nanjing’s Confucius Temple is renown nationwide for its new year’s lanterns. But that definition extends to the western new year, bringing joy yesterday evening to revellers as they said goodbye to 2022 and wondered what the next 12 months...

Nanjing’s 2022 in Review; COVID, Sport, Heatwave, Fire & Flying

Saying goodbye to 2022 in Nanjing, and indeed in all of China, can be seen as being punctuated by the dramatic turn in the fortunes dealt our way by the year’s final weeks. It's a turnaround begging reflection, perhaps...

COVID Rehab Questions Answered by Maternity & Child Experts

We’re at the stage in Nanjing where many, with varying degrees of success, have managed to fight through a bout of COVID. But in recovery mode, there nevertheless remain questions as to unforeseen side effects, answered today by two...

2 Metro Lines & New Yangtze River Tunnel Open on same Day!

Nanjing transportation is ending 2022 in style, with the simultaneous opening of a brand new metro line, an extension to an existing line and another road link under the Yangtze. All provide much-needed inter connectivity to a part of...

International Flight Bookings Skyrocket as Border Set to Reopen

Tourism is finally getting the shot in the arm for which it has waited so long, with all that pent-up demand for travel already beginning to unleash itself. So stow those table trays, and prepare for an Australian and...

Toilet is China’s Ugliest Building? More Nearby & 2 in Nanjing!

Comparisons to toilets are something of a recurring theme in the 2022 list of architectural eyesores in China, as voted for by the general public and released at the end of each year. And the outright winner this year...

Messi Experience Park in Nanjing Set to Open Soon? Maybe…

With the World Cup behind us and Argentina’s nail-biting win, followed by Lionel Messi’s announcement he will not retire after all, so attention here in Nanjing turns back toward the footballing legend’s theme park, the Messi Experience Park. However, the...

Emergency Calls up 500%; Nanjing Reminds Critically Sick Only

Nanjing’s medical authorities have near tripled the number of operators handling emergency calls in recent days, while going all out in urging the public not to call and waste precious resources with trivialities. Calls to the 120 medical emergency hotline...

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Iranians in China become more Visible than Countable

These things often start, not with a statistic, but with a voice; Persian heard in a lift, a WeChat...

Why Chinese Men Can’t Quit; Smoking, Face and the State

China has 300 million smokers, nearly a third of the world's total. The imbalance between the sexes is stark:...

US Dept of Justice Says Nanjing Firm Hacked NASA, Senate & More

A sharp new cyber case has put a Nanjing company at the centre of a much wider political row....

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